I’m bored to the point of d…
Never mind.

Life right now consists of mainly studying, sleeping and eating. Other than those, are guilty pleasures.

No doubt I enjoy studying (the topics I like) but doing it repeatedly for the longest time may cause adverse reactions such as sleeping disorders, schizophrenia, psychosis, delirium, depression and social alienation.

According to Aileen Tan. Lol… Which of course may not be true, but there’s a possibility.

I have trouble sleeping for the past few daysss. Though I’m physically lethargic, my mind is like… Spastic?! “Over-stimulated” is a friendlier word. I can’t sleep earlier than 3am now.

Wonder how am I gonna wake up for a 5-week attachment 2 weeks later… Wonder what will happen in the hospital… Wonder if I can be a good nurse… Wonder when can I play carelessly again.

I’m in such a wonderful state now. Lol… 

Deprived.

Suffocating.

Confined.

A caged bird.

Yay 1 paper down. Happy with my memory, thank God for helping me!!! Cos seriously I couldn’t do it on my own… I’m zombified now but it’s worth it I guess.

Having my lunch of cornflakes + chocolate milk + organic almonds lol… While watching Madagascar 2 and planning to take a nap thereafter. :)

加油！:)

 

Lost my piano scales book on the way for lesson just now… How I lost it remains a mystery. Now it’s gone for good Lol, I never like scales.

Anyway all those stuff inside have more or less been transferred into my brain already…. After much grilling from my beloved teacher. :)

She was so cute today. We were listening to the recording of one of my exam pieces, and I questioned the pianist’s interpretation cos it was slightly different from ours.

And she replied,

“Ours sounds nicer hor?”

Lol… (^;^)v

 

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I’ve just infringed on one of my moral values. So much for ‘preaching’ about it.

 

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When is a real break ever gonna come?!?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am getting sick of STUDYING continuously…

All the bio… The freaking terms!!!!!!!

 

@^$!*#^!*#&!$^!*%#@!(&@

 

????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

The sun is hot in the sky
Just like a giant spotlight.

Lenka - “The Show”

 

Woke up at 7.30am today, on a Sunday, due to the horrendous heat. My air con is worse than a fan so I decided not to switch it on the previous night. I woke up having a cough and a headache as I searched my floor for my handphone which had dropped from my bed during my sleep…

I’m probably dehydrated or that my body is too hot (Hmmm… LOL).

….. ….. ….. ….. ….. ….. ….. ….. ….. ….. …..

Anyway, interestingly, at the entrance of JP, a boy approached me.

“ 可以帮我买烟吗？”

I think I’m too used to people asking me to buy stuff FROM them instead of FOR them. I was speechless for 2 seconds, trying to make some sense out of that.

When I saw that he wanted to hand over $7, I realized what he meant. (7-eleven was beside.)

Obviously I won’t do such a thing.

1) I’m a NURSE (in-making) and I don’t support smoking. :) The weather is polluted and hot enough. =x

2) It’s illegal to be smoking since he’s underage. He looks like a 15 year-old to me.

3) It’s morally unethical for me to abuse my legal age. With increased age comes increased responsibility. :)

SO, I gave him a “WHAT THE…” look and walked away. I could have said something but was too speechless… That was just a natural reaction.

 

This is a good situation to bring up many social issues. Haha… But I’m going to bed now. =)

Happy = Chang coming back to church. Missed having him around in church.  He’s someone whom I showered my TLC on and brought him to church. Then he left, now he’s back, the rest is history. I’m so proud of his courage and decision to come back. :)

Neutral = Cg may be shifting to Expo service.

Sad = Received a call from someone… His dad just beat him up quite bad. Seriously, what right does the father has to do that, now that the child is a grown-up, able to make his own decisions? To me that is plainly a physical abuse. What is the end-result he hopes to achieve? Disunity and fear in the household, hatred towards him?

“Spare the rod and spoil the child".

Sure I do support that statement, but firstly, as parents they gotta examine the purpose of them using the ‘rod’. Will it do more harm or good to the child? Eventually, is the message/lesson being brought across?

My heart is saddened. :(

Just a few days ago, my lecturer mentioned that hospitals are seeing more patients being admitted due to physical abuses at home. It’s ironic. Home should be the safest place to be in.

It’s not surprising that most abusers are the males (Sorry for the stereotype.). What’s wrong with them really? Are they trying to make others feel small to make them appear ‘bigger’, more powerful? It’s pathetic that they have no other means to portray that.

So, if your boyfriend or husband are abusive towards you, leave him. Till he wakes up his ideas, straighten out his thoughts then maybe you can consider going back. Otherwise, ladies, you don’t deserve that kind of treatment from anyone at all.

(Just to clarify, leaving your husband doesn’t mean divorcing him. It means going somewhere safer away from him until he decides to change. You gotta protect yourself.)

 

Alright so much for now.

YAY I passed Pharmaco. :)

That’s something to be thankful for, considering it’s my most dreaded topic of all. Nice to learn but not nice to study, or rather memorize.

Thank God for that, totally… (Refer to my previous post =P)

I’m happy today cos my piano teacher was happy with my progress. :) Just that my scales are still a little rusty. She said my dreaded word “MEMORIZE”.

Sigh, God I pray for a bigger brain capacity… That I can use just 1 more % of my brain? :)

And I’m also very happy cos I HAVE FINALLY GONE TO TOWN after forever. So deprived huh… The air was somewhat different there. :)

 

 

Anyway, if you have old folks at home, please make your house as fall-free as possible. My dad had just slipped and twisted his elbow or something. Older people have weaker bones. Once they fall, things are gonna turn ugly.

I was in my room when I heard his fall. It made me cringe big time. Though I’m taking NURSING, anything to do with BONES (eg, fractures, dislocation…) is not my cup of tea. Totally.

The mention of it makes my hair stand on its ends and send shivers down my spine. Yea something like that. Just don’t…

…

Ok great. My dad just came into my room and showed me his elbow… It’s swollen already… I was trying so hard to avoid seeing it…

What kind of nurse is this. (–_-)

Oh yay Pharmaco is over. If I can pass, it is truly divine intervention. :) And strangely I don't know why for this test, 3 people prayed for me!

THREE.

Thanks for your prayers, they were very much needed. My mind was as blank as the photocopying paper hehe.

Went to the student lounge to watch "A Walk To Remember" while my friends caught some sleep haha. I love the songs inside! Does anyone know if there is a soundtrack album for that? :)

Met MC and SiMin for lunch... MC is totally crazy over her PRINCE CHARMING. The way she described him... Omg. Haha. You should see the enthusiasm and passion she had. LOL.. Sia la.

Went for tutorial after that... It was our LAST one together. I really love my group. :( The best combi ever. HAHA. AND I saw that my angmoh tutor has a tattoo of a ring on her ring finger.

THAT IS SO COOL OMG. That's what I have thought of doing!!!!!!!!! To tattoo my wedding ring on my finger!!! (0.0) She actually did it!

IF my hubby is sporting enough, we can both get it together!!! Anyway, if you don't like it, you can always wear a real ring to cover it hahahaha. =X

 

Ok so much for this senseless post. Sad that Semester 2 is coming to an end. :(

I love studying while listening to Chinese worship songs. It motivates me to study harder, knowing that I’m doing it all unto God. :)

Seriously, I don’t know how am I going to do for paper tmr. Thinking about that makes me wanna cry.

Memorizing is not my cup of tea… TOTALLY. I hate mindless memorizing. It almost useless for me since I am pretty sure I’d forget most of it after I graduate.

I mean what’s the point of memorizing when the info is all in the book??? Just gotta FLIP it open for the answer, why bother memorizing?

On the other hand, my favourite subject is GP. A topic you can’t exactly study :) and at least it’s mind-stimulating enough to keep me interested.

I think I need Penelzine, Tranylcypromine, Ephedrine, Tyramine, Desipramine, Reboxetine. One of them will do. Lol…

 

Well in any case, I’m just gonna do my best for tmr.

 

Pharmaco… =’’( 

Sigh, I seriously don’t know how to study Pharmaco and how to memorize those freakish names.

=’(

Agonized + helpless.

Studying for Pharmacology AGAIN…

The challenging thing about it is the memorizing skill… Drug names are obnoxious.

For example…

Diphenylmethanes: e.g. bisacodyl (Dulcolax®) phenolphthalein (Prescription Only, POM)

Anthraquinones: e.g. senna (Senokot®), aloe, cascara

 

(0.0)???!!!!

Seriously, I am so not gonna waste my brain space over that, But who knows… It might come out… I don’t know… :(

 

Came across this chim word “Flatulence”.

(0.0)

Wiki-ed it…

Flatulence is the production of a mixture of gases in the digestive tract of mammals or other animals that are byproducts of the digestion process. Such a mixture of gases is known as flatus, and is expelled from the rectum in a process colloquially referred to as "passing gas" or "farting". Flatus is brought to the rectum by the same process which causes feces to descend from the large intestine. The noises commonly associated with flatulence are caused by the vibration of the anal sphincter, and occasionally by the closed buttocks.

Lol… So chim for what….
The description is quite humourous hehe.

 

Ok it’s time to tuck in…

(-_-)zzZ

 

I think it’s useless to dream big without DISCIPLINE to start with.

:(

I'm so in love with Mandarin worship songs!!! There is just a certain sincerity and genuineness to it that English ones can't exactly bring out.

Maybe it's because I'm a Chinese. *Grin* :)

I need to brush up on my Mandarin and dialects for the upcoming attachment... Haha...

..... .... ... .. .

Anyway, we learnt about the electrocardiogram (ECG) today. 

Basically, we have to know how to interpret it. I've skipped a few lectures on this so it's better not to share whatever knowledge I have. Lol...

It was quite funny, the lecturer shared this example...

A true case.
On a fateful night at East Coast Park, 2 lovers were kissing and stuff. What happened was, the girl was giving the guy lovebites on the neck. Apparently both were too engrossed or something... The guy DIED in the end.

How did that happen? =/

The girl was biting on a side of his neck, while using a hand to compress on the other side of the neck. Hence resulting in the occlusion (blockage) of the carotid arteries.

As you can see from the diagram, the carotid arteries supply blood to the brain. By compressing both sides of the neck, the brain couldn't receive much blood, resulting in death.

OMG. It was a freak accident. Must be traumatizing for the girl.

Be careful when kissing. Chill... :) (Don't kill... Lol...)

 

P.S: Ok I don't know how my lecturer managed to digress to that. Haha.

I've just cleaned my toilet and vacuumed my room. :)

Sense of victory. Lol... For some exotic reason, I like cleaning my toilet. :) 

And I'm not exactly looking forward to school... It's not that bad, in fact it can be fun, but the thought of starting the week all over again is kinda a drag.

Some Sunday-night effect I guess...

There's an aseptic wound dressing assessment on Tuesday and the rest of the days I plan to start on my revision...

Very happy that all my assignments and project are over and done with. :)

Sense of victory. =P

 

Ok I should really prepare for school now,..

Weekends seem to pass by so quickly... But then again, weekdays too. :) And again, it doesn't matter cos I enjoy (most of) the things I'm doing. :)

Dad bought me to Jurong Hill for dinner. It's above the Jurong Birdpark. A nice place to go if you want a peaceful night. It overlooks the Jurong Island. :) According to him, the Jurong Hilltop restaurant was started since 1964. It was a place where foreign politicians used to gather.

So... At least there's something in the West... Hehe.

Oh there's this fishery port place too. My dad used to bring us there at midnight to see fishes being imported in, ready for sale the next morning.

That's another interesting place. Lol..

..... .... ... .. .

It's time to choose my attachment place again.

My

1st choice - NUH
2nd choice - SGH
3rd choice - AH (Alexandra)

NUH cos it's next to NUS and I'm hoping to stay over at a friend's hostel so that I can sleep longer!!! Morning shifts start at 7am. I reckon that if I wake up late, I can just dash over... In my nurse uniform, how glam huh. HAHA.

SGH cos I heard it's a good teaching hospital. But it's at Outram... So I reckon I'll be broke after attachment due to cab fares.

AH cos I have a direct bus and the food around that area is nice. :) Plus it's near AIA so I can meet up with some people there.

Will spend 4 good long weeks there in cardiac (heart) & respiratory (lungs)  wards. I bet there will be drama...

 

And 1 week in a Polyclinic... (I choose Jurong Polyclinic of cos haha)

I have NEVER stepped into a Polyclinic before so I don't know what to expect except long queues??? Cos that's the only thing people talk about. And of cos cheap fees, and a good place to get an MC...

So while others are having their holidays... We have 5 weeks of attachment... :) Interesting huh.

Nursing rocks.

Was looking at CDs at Gramophone, I found that very therapeutic though there's always a temptation to buy a CD or two...

And as usual, I was browsing aimlessly through the racks and I saw

~NICK DRAKE~

whom I was crazily into recently. Great, it was on 30% discount! Until I went to the counter and found out it was actually $23.07. But for him it's ok, I love his voice so much I just wanna listen to him sing even though I didn't know most of the songs. Lol...

Check out the CD I bought... :)

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/
artist/album/0,,3053470,00.html

Wanted to watch a late-night movie but I have already spent so much...
:( So I didn't.

And very randomly, a friend asked me out for a joyride! At 12am. Lol... It was very a very memorable ride haha. He drove from Jurong right up to Changi! Past Old Changi Hospital *cringe* and the chalets there...

To Changi Village where he drove round a carpark just to show me the trans. It was a total eye-opener! :)

Then we drove along Changi beach, East Coast Park, through the city and along West Coast park back to my place. Haha... I was playing the CD I just bought throughout the entire ride. Interesting huh! :)

I miss staying in the east where I spent the first decade of my life in Bedok! I wanna go back to the east where I belonggg... Haha...

Just ended a meeting and with barely 4 hours of sleep, it's easy to stay in my own comfort world as always...

I'm not exactly the friendliest person in the morning, as in my mind gets fully functional only after 12pm... So, please don't be offended if I seem aloof or something.

The thing is there is really NOTHING going on in my mind. I may even be staring at you talking, and all I can interpret from that is your lips moving and you producing some familiar sounds...

Maybe it's a little exaggerated but it's almost the case.

Yea this is something about me which is always causing trouble and misunderstandings. I think. As in, people have been telling that I'm always in my own world... Haha well, it's my natural tendency to I guess. It's so me that I don't even think it's abnormal. Ha...

Mornings are for sleeping and not some mind-stimulating stuff... Like discussions, science lectures and exams. Period. :)

 

This is bad... Tsk.

Been snacking a lot recently... This won't do! :)

For some reason, I'm not looking forward to tmr... It's gonna be a looooong day.

Today's pretty long too... But fun I like! :)

 

Cool shot huh. lol... Looks pro... (And no they weren't posing lol) We met early to practise on WOUND DRESSING. It's not as easy as it seems... Lots of nitty details and precautions... Since most of the equipment are STERILE, we have to be very careful not to touch this and that.

It's like a minefield. :)

This is slightly unglam hahaha.

Fooling around in the canteen lol... Took some HILARIOUS pictures during lecture which made me laugh till I cried! Lol... 

Man... I think I'm really good in self-entertaining...

Hmmm... Chilling in the music library the other day, my favourite hideaway... :)

 

It was a great happy day!

My dad was happy.
I am happy that he's happy.
I am happy that God answered my prayers today!!! Happy that I didn't have to wait long for it hehe.
Happy to share funny silly moments with friends!

:)

So happy that I left my house key in school.................... (Anti-climax.)
Hope to retrieve it back later!

Oh Friday is here...
I can see a big mountain ahead to conquer.........
As much fun as school is, that is only the tip of the iceberg of course.

Ok enough's been said on that...
Ending this post on a low note haha.

Off...

 

P.S.: Special hi to Pok and VinK! :)

Alright before the day ends,

Happy April's fool to all!

I miss secondary school days where it was such a big thing... A day where the class' unity was strengthened exponentially as we combined forces to bully the teachers! :)

In university now, nobody even remembers this special day! However, it was a great day nevertheless... :) I washed 2 cars for nursing camp fundraising, in the afternoon sun! So what happened was, I went to a friend's hostel to shower after lunch and we ended up sharing about our very interesting life stories. Lol...

After that we rushed down for tutorial, it was the most fun one! I love my group!!!!!!! It consists of all the funniest people in nursing hahaha.

I SIMPLY LOVE GOING TO SCHOOL. But not for the assignments, assessments and exams parts hehehe.

Went for prayer meeting in the evening, it was a great time with God! A time which I set aside just to love and worship Him!

Had orchestra rehearsal after that. I'm beginning to really like playing cello... Maybe it's because I've improved slightly and so it sounds slightly nicer... And it's probably because I've been praying to God to help me also...

Ultimately, it is for HIS glory.

Recently there is a new cellist who joined us, She's the coolest cellist ever, I like her! Reason being she has a few tattoos!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG. Tattoos rock.

Plus she likes "Little Twin Stars"! Haha so cute. She's also pro in cello yet very humble. I really like her! :)

Hehe it was a great eventful day~

And lastly, Happy (belated) Birthday Henry!

Actually I could make it on time, but by the time I finished typing the above, it's past midnight haha.

Ok I'm 70% in lalaland now... Off...

Run Aileen, RUN!

 

I think I need a jogging partner. Someone who is disciplined, who is willing to run at my (snail) pace, who is willing to stop for a break. :)

Hehe.

Come to think of it, I really should get an iPod SOON... I've been procrastinating for the longest time, which is one of the reasons why I haven't been jogging for the longest time. 

Actually I quite miss jogging... It's an extremely good (and costless) stress-reliever for me during my A-level exam period which saw me jogging up to thrice each week.

2-3 years down the road...

I found another (expensive) stress-reliever... SPENDING $$$. Especially on food and cabs.

This is bad...
It's the TOTAL opposite of jogging?! Lol...

What happened? =X